gym suit
1
1.7
- noun
- /dʒɪm suːt/
- US
:
traje de gimnasia
- My mom kept my gym suit.
Examples
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A brown-red stain spread from between her legs and up the seat of her gym suit, which clung and gathered in the clenched place between her thighs.
Fiction book (1995) -
When they were in junior high, the girls all had to wear gym suits, which they bought from the Little Folks Shop.
Fiction book (1995) -
"Why don't you take your gym suit home every day and wear it to school under your dress?"
Fiction book (1994) -
But this was all still ahead of them, after they learned to drink beer in the stockyard, after the first girl in their class got pregnant and had the baby, and after nobody could force them to wear gym suits anymore.
Fiction book (1995) -
I waited for Douglas to scatter, and I went right up to her blushing body in its hot gym suit.
Fiction book (1999) -
Folami was careful always to slip into her one-piece gym suit beneath her long skirt, then go through contortions getting the top part on under her long-sleeved blouses, all the while holding onto her gele.
Fiction book (1994) -
She was getting close to the rest of the class, the girls in their gym suits with their secrets and smiles, and the boys throwing the softball back and forth between mitts, except for the one boy who always carried the bats and bases to and from the equipment room, balancing the wood on one shoulder with the rubber mats in his other hand.
Fiction book (1995) -
She wore a bright pink gym suit while practicing her routines at the gym.
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The coach instructed everyone to change into their gym suits before starting the exercise session.
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After a long day of sports, he was eager to take off his sweaty gym suit and relax.
Synonyms
9
1.3
A set of loose, comfortable clothes with a jacket and pants for exercise
9
1.3
Clothes you wear for sport or casual activity
5
1.1
A matching set of comfortable clothes with a top and pants for exercise or relaxing
5
2.0
A matching set of loose, comfortable clothes with sweatpants and a sweatshirt for exercise or casual wear
1
2.7
Clothes people wear for sports or exercise and often for comfort
A set of loose, comfortable clothes worn for exercise
How Athletic
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a set of clothing worn for gym or physical exercise' is directly built from 'gym' (place for exercise) + 'suit' (an outfit), so a learner who knows both words can infer it as an outfit for the gym. This compositional pattern (purpose + clothing) is common across languages and follows normal English noun-noun compound formation, making it immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Gym suit comes from a simple idea: a set of clothes for the gym. The word gym is the place where you do exercise and suit here means a matching outfit, so it came to mean 'clothes you wear for gym class'.